Free Tor e-books
Sunday, April 20th, 2008 - 3:24am
Http://www.tor.com
Fill in the info slots and there is a free book offered each week, along with some free wallpapers.
The wallpapers this week should make any Robert Jordan fans here happy, as they are the cover art from "The Dragon reborn" and the Snake-Wheel design.
edit: modified title to make the electronic nature of the books more apparent.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Is this free book as in an ebook, or an actual physical paper object?
EDIT: Nevermind, read the link. Of course it would be digital.
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I have put the second pic as my background. Have to start that series all over again, with the new additions.
Great link! Also subscribed to that site. Will see how this keeps up.
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It's PDF files, so kind of a pain to put on an actual eReader like a Sony PRS or Kindle.
PDF, html or Mobi are the format it offers.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Kindle can natively take Mobi, and you can use BookDesigner (software is in english) to convert html to a Sony PRS .lrf file.
You can also use Mobipocket Creator to convert pdf to .mobi if that floats your boat.
As a Sony Reader owner, I find myself converting many free and drm-free purchased books using BookDesigner. It's tricky, but if you run through the tutorial you'll see the power it actually has.
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I've been grabbing these since they started the program and putting them on my Kindle. The very first book (can't recall the title) was only available in PDF form and then tons of folks sent feedback asking for other formats, so they added html and Mobi.
I've read Old Man's War and Spin out the lot and really enjoyed both. They'll be getting money for other works by these authors now that I've tried them. I guess their nefarious plan worked.
The wallpapers each week are excellent gravy to an already great offer.
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Baen Books also has a selection of free books on their site: http://www.baen.com/library/
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Anyone know how long it takes to get the email? I haven't received anything yet.
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Unfortunately anybody jumping on at this point missed out on the majority; they've released ten and only have two more to go. I read Spin and Old Man's War (both excellent), the others were mostly fantasy with a couple of alternate history novels in there. I read the fourth one, Darkness Rising, but it was pretty bad derivative fantasy.
I believe every single book they've released so far has either had sequels or been part of a series; I'm willing to bet the event they're ramping up for is an e-books store where you can buy the rest.
They send out the weekly book every Friday, you should get the link then.
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Our current free book is Reiffen’s Choice by S.C. Butler. Download your eBook in:
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Our current free book is The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove. Download your eBook in:
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For those who missed out on last week’s mailing, download links for Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold are provided below
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And so it begins. Here's the link for you to download your free digital copy of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn.
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Our current free book is Lord of the Isles by David Drake. Download your eBook in:
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Our current free book is Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell. Download your eBook in :
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Our current free book is Farthing by Jo Walton. Download your eBook in :
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Our current free book is The Outstretched Shadow, book one of Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory’s Obsidian Trilogy. Download your eBook in :
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Here's the link for you to download your free digital copy of Robert Charles Wilson's Spin , winner of the 2006 Hugo Award.
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Here's the link for you to download your free digital copy of John Scalzi's Old Man's War .
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"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Thanks for the links, Nosferatu! Downloading the PDF for "Old Man's War" worked perfectly.
I also recommend downloading "Mistborn" by Brian Sanderson for any fantasy fans. He makes good on the promise he shown with "Elantris" and then some.
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All of the free ebooks are available again at the new TOR site. I have to say they are doing a really cool blog with a ton of content in addition.
I highly recommend checking it out: http://www.tor.com/
BTW - the free books end on 07/27 so get them while they are hot. Love having free content for my Kindle but any ebook reader will work with these:
http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=577
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Yep, I saw that yesterday and grabbed them all. I have a big backlog but I will get to them, someday.
Oh, this was a great, great promotion - the pdf ebooks were the perfect remedy to inevitable downtime in my particular workplace. That, and I'll never turn down free books. The problem, of course, is that I'm running out and picking up all the subsequent books in the series they tease me with; I've really enjoyed John Scalzi's and Brandon Sanderson's other work.
Also, it helped me pad out my own personal project, chuck's year in books.
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